OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested
Written by Ernesto on October 23, 2007The servers of OiNK.cd - one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers - are raided and the admin, a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough, is arrested.
The British and the Dutch police both contributed to the investigation that was initiated by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations. The operation was supported by Interpol who coordinated the international cooperation.
According to early reports OiNk’s servers were confiscated in Amsterdam last week. This seems to be unlikely because the site was still fully functional 24 hours ago. The administrator of OiNK was arrested this morning by the Cleveland Police. The BBC reports that his employer and the home of his father were raided as well.
Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said in a reponse to the news: “OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”
OiNK hosted hundreds and thousands of torrents with over a million peers which makes it more popular than most public trackers. The site was known to be one of the first places where leaked music albums appeared, so anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender were keeping a close eye on it.
In July the tracker already changed its name from OiNK.me.uk to OiNK.cd due to “legal” issues with their domain registrar. Unfortunately it now seems that the popular private BitTorrent tracker is in bigger trouble.
developing story…
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OiNK.cd - because music industry just doesn’t work right.
It is a sad day for music.
they can’t catch osama bin laden, but man they are really going after people who love music, but hate the industry. i’m so glad all my tax money is going to busting computer people, those computers are so complicated n@ they must be dangerous…
Oh , the very sad day for P2P comunity
#75 irc.dal.net #oink
Oh no, a dude that was profiting (yes, that’s right) from pointing peeps to copyright infringing works gets busted.
Good, I’m glad because whilst I think the movie/music studios make stupid amounts of money from us and ought to be ashamed of themselves you can’t correct that “wrong” by doing another.
So sad that people have lost the ability to tell right from wrong.
And it shows how “loyal” the “community” is when the first things they ask is if anyone knows of an “alternative”.
OiNK.cd - because music industry just doesn’t work right.
It is a sad day for music.
Well you create a closed community like this and someone is gonna get pissed and report you.
fuckers fucking fuckers…
sorry to use profanities but damn, oink.cd rawked fo sho. \m/
thanks to the admin willing to take the can for all us ppl.
BiG RESPECT TO YOUZE. THANKS FOR ALL THE JOY YOU’VE BOUGHT TO MY FRIENDS AND i.
Man this really sucks. I hate em.
[quote comment="193028"]The moderators where arrogant. You visit the IRC for help you get kicked. The site op’s often asked for donations, and make a profit from file sharing of music.
To me, it servers him right. He was doing something illegal, even worse making money out of P2P.[/quote]
They never asked for money. Learn your shit before you start talking our of your ass like the reports are.
I cant say Im too bothered. It was good but the users were so self righteous. Their way or the highway. I was having a tough enough time getting a decent ratio without them on my back. It just goes against the idea of a community really. I especially didnt like the zero tolerance of free stuff, even if it was disappearing off the net!
Give them a few months to match everyone up IP Address with ISPs, Donations, etc and you’ll see a glut of people being sent nasty law suit action letters strong arming for money.
This is going to be cash cow for them (pun intended).
Eh, closed trackers come and go. That’s basically the way things happen these days. The only stable thing around seems to be, unsurprisingly, TPB… well that and eztvefnet.org, they’re cool.
I’m kinda thinking that a more sustainable model for warezing would be to have more specialized communities rather than one big private one which the likes of demonoid etc. are seeming to want to become. With piles of public trackers and DHT this sort of thing might work… if it weren’t for control freaks thinking that ratio enforcement is gonna matter at all (I’ve had a 25-meg download from demonoid open for like three days now, it’s coming down at an astounding 0.4 KiB/s on average…)
R.I.P
oink
:(
For one they cannot go after his paypal account cause its donations.
and the reason why the pirate bay did not get fully shut down cause there copyright law is diffrent then in other countries, remember the raid, read about it before askin weired ?.. and its not ilegal to host .torrent files on a website its ilegal to host the acutal copywrite movies/mps/etc on the servers. most sites just index torrent files. which is fully legal to do.
hence these sites still around
To the anonymous asshole complaining about private trackers, supporting piracy and his lack of invitations.
Remember, for every one that goes down, 5 more come up, usually ones of decent regard as well.
Thank you Tier 4 and 5 and may you provide us with a new stream once an adequate sponsor is available again.
http://www.oink.cd
“The website http://www.oink.cd is currently offline.”
What’s going on?
People who claim he profited from it are idiots..
A site as massive as that, cost a lot more to run than they’d ever get out of voluntary donations
why are people still choosing to host websites in their native countries or in US/Europe, why not shell out for the security garunteed with hosting in Russia/Sweden
To those posting bitching comments I am sad to see that whilst taking part in the general warez scene you have never learnt what it was about.
A very sad day, I do wonder if there is some kind of back up plan to get the server up again, they were always thinking and moving these guys.
I will say R.I.P until we can join again ;)
The mdoerators shouldn’t have insisted that only illegal stuff be put up. I couldn’t even upload software without a crack. Now thats bad
I agree, warez sites should be about preservation and avoiding filling up your house with useless bits of plastic and cardboard.
let the virus’s decedend upon those who dare cross us(IFPI, BPI and the Dutch and English Police)!!!
A cute policeman is a must. Preferrably a stuffed one.
If you need one, ask for the copyright department.
Sucked in. Elitist garbage like this is no better than RIAA anyway and I’m pleased these fuckers are out of action.
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